Welcome back to Horror Street, my ongoing journey in search of awesome yet spooky graffiti art on the streets and little-traveled corners of New York City!

Our latest entry goes waaay back, to the early 1990s, during one of my wanders through Long Island City, the eastern area of Queens, NY, that’s become all the rage for real estate developers in the last decade or so, with high-rise apartment buildings springing up in what used to be an industrialized neighborhood (which explains how Queens recently became listed as one of the most expensive “cities” in America, rent-wise!).

But before the area was transformed into a place to be, it was a place to avoid…because it was roamed by graffiti demons!

I don’t recognize the characters, but they look inspired by either Japanese anime, or video games (or maybe a ’90s animated series?); looks really good, though. (I apologize for the quality of the photo, but back then I was using disposable cameras loaded with actual film, which was processed by a local pharmacy. Stone Age photography!) And, as often happens with street art, the next time I passed through that area, maybe a year later, the mural was gone, replaced by someone else’s art.

Stay tuned for further installments of Horror Street—there’s plenty of macabre graffiti art to be found on the streets of New York, if you look in the right creepy places! And be sure to check out my previous HS entries, like the Brooklyn Vampire, the demonic D-Rod, and the Spooky Forest!